Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1887-08-25
PERSONAL AND GENERAL.

ChautauQua lake, N. Y, on the 10Th, IN
volving loss of $40, 600. The flames orig
mated in the engine-house. The ice
houses were owned by Colonel c. 8. Bar
property of the Chautauqua Lake Ice
Company of Pittsburgh. The property de-
stroyed is insured for $17,500.
APPLICATIONS for the prepayment OF in
terest were received at the Treasury De-
partment on the 10th from the holders of
So, 096, 200 of bonds, making total to date
of $61 ,O96, $50. The interest will be sent out
as fast as possible.
JESSE DUKES, a negro editor of Mont
gomery, Ala, has been ordered out of town
for an offensive publication.
RUSSIA has filed with the Porte a pro-
test against Prince Ferdinand.
SECRETARY FAIRCHILD's sinking-fund
enterprise is considered success.
THERE seems to be a general call for
Lord Harrington to enter the British
Cabinet.
LELAND STANFORD filed his answer in
the United States Court at San Francisco
ON the 18th to the petition of the Pacific
Railways Commission.
SECRETARY WHITNEY has decided that
Congress should be called upon to decide
whether or not the famous old battle-ship
Hartford shall be repaired or turned into
junk.
ERNEST SCHoELTZE, now at Au Sable,
Mich, tells frightful story of slavery and
ill-treatment in Yucatan.
The lady recently arrested at Cowes,
Isle of Wight, as a dynamiter, now wants
damages for it.
THE Pennsylvania Republican State con-
vention, on the 18th, nominated w. B. Hart
for State Treasurer, Henry W. Williams
for Supreme Judge, and adopted plat
form, one feature of which is Endorsement
of Blaine.
THE offers for the sale of four and one
half per cent. bonds to the Government
received at the Treasury Department
amount to 1926, $50. The rates ranged
from 500 to $40. The majority were Of
fered at the latter figure.
THE President has recognized FREDERICK
II. Baelen as Counsel-GeneraI of Chill in
the United States.
A RAILWAY wreck occurred on the Balti-
more & Ohio at Washington, on the 18th,
in which Engineer Hamilton Brosius was
killed and about fifteen persons injured.
TWELVE hundred and fifty members of
German war veterans associations arrived
at Metz on the 18th and proceeded to the
battle-felds of 1870, where they decorated
the graves of their slain comrades.
CHARLES PAGE, who swindled the
Jacques Cartier Bank at Montreal, Can,
out of $25, 900, was arrested on the evening
of the 10th at Versailles, Que, about
eighteen miles from the border line. All
the money was found in his possession.
CHARLEY PARKER, the cowboy who
robbed Paymaster Bush, of the United
States army, of $1,000 at Hay Springs in
February last, was captured on the 18th at
Candy, N. Y, by the sheriff of Logan
IT. Snn L.
IT has just been learned that package
sent from Omaha by the Pacific Express
on the 10Th, was lost between Green River,
Wyoming, and Pocatelli, Idaho, contain
ing 1000 s. bills. 1t was stolen from the
car. No clew. The employees are not sus-
pected.
SHERIFF CHARLES LYNCH of Alpena,
Mich, died ON the 18th at the Detroit
Sanitarium from shot-wound in the leg,
inflicted by the notorious "Blinkey" Nor
gan. Sheriff Lynch planned and carried
out the scheme to capture "Blinkey" Nor
gan and others, alleged to be the murder
ers of Detective Huliigan, of Cleveland
THE Western Passenger Association met
at Chicago ON the 18th and decided to add
here to the rate for the Grand Army re-
union at st. Louis next month at single
fare on roads west and northwest of Mis-
souri, river, as already agreed upon. The
roads from Chicago to st. Louis will make
a rate of one cent, to meet the rate fixed
by the Central Traffic Association.
A RATE war is threatened among rail-
roads centering in Minneapolis.
IT has been decided by the British Cab
met to hold an autumn session of Parlia-
ment.
IT is again reported, to the French Gov
eminent this time, that Stanley has been
deserted by his escort and killed by natives
in Africa.
AN elevator fell at New York on the 18th
killing one person and injuring several.
1T is reiterated that the Irish National
League is to be proclaimed during the last
week of Parliament.
E. G. Hill, of Richmond, Ind, was elect
ed president of the Association of Ameri-
can Florists.
PRINCE WILLIAM of Prussia presented
colors to the new regiments at Potsdam on
the 18th. The Emperor was unable to be
present.
A WRECK occurred on the Pittsburgh &
Cleveland road at Bayard, O., on the 18th,
killing the porter and injuring a number
of passengers.
The verdict of the coroner's jury in the
matter of the Chatsworth Qn.) wreck
holds Timothy Coughlin, section foreman,
JULIUS WIEsBADEN, the New York miser,
who was found starving in his room, with
thousands of dollars in his possession, a
few days ago, died in Bellevue Hospital on
the night of the 18th. He worried till the
last about his money.
NEWS has been received from Badakshan
to the effect that 5000 Russians have ar
rived at Karakula and 1000 at Birkhai.
The engineers strike on the Mexican
Central has collapsed.
PROF. o. s. FOWLER, the noted phrenol-
ogist and lecturer, died at his residence
near Sharon Station, Conn.,, on the 18th,
after an illness of only thirty hours. The
cause of death was spinal trouble super
induced by heavy cold.
A MADISON (Wis.) special says Henry P.
Armsby, Professor of Agricultural Chem
istry at the Wisconsin State University,
has accepted the dictatorship of the Penn
sylvania agricultural experimental sta
ton, and will leave for the East in few
days.
SECRETARY BAYARD and Secretary Fair
child were the only attendants at the reg
ular cabinet meeting on the 18th. Secre-
tary Lamar, accompanied by Mrs. Lamar,
left for the White mountains, where they
will remain for several weeks.
DENNIS RYAN, the st. Paul millionaire,
and company of Eastern capitalists has
begun the erection of the largest smelling
and reduction works in the country in
Tacoma, W. T. The capital stock OF the
company is placed at $4,000, 900, and the
works are to turn out 400 tons of ore daily.
THE body of man who had papers upon
his person showing him to have been sue
cessively, sergeant, Lieutenant and Cap
tain of Company "a )" Fifty-fifth Illinois
volunteers, was found on the Baltimore &